Friday, November 27, 2009

It's Black Friday, and I decided to release this cute little Santa's Helper outfit along with having a half-price sale in the main store.

I tried a couple of new tricks with this outfit. First, I added fur onto the end of a flexi skirt. Not a big deal, you say? Well, if you want it to move the right way, it's a big deal. Trust me on this. So, I'm really happy with the way the skirt turned out.

Second, the boots: I noticed a glitch in the latest Stiletto Moody's shoes, when the avatar's ankle moves, the shoe material disappears inside. It got me to thinking, and I realized that some boots don't have separate bits for the lower leg and the foot. So these boots are the first I've made with combined lower leg/foot. the foot just wears an invisiprim. It ends up looking really cool, all the time!

Believe it or not, I decide to offer this as my item for the Twisted Krissmuss non-hunt shopping event by the sponsors of the Twisted Hunt. That means, it'll be L$100 until 12/31/09. After that, I'll put it in the attic and give it a more realistic price of L$399.

I loaded this outfit on Apez and XStreet both, since I was curious how Apez stacks up. I think XStreet may be driving all us merchants away with their new pricing policy, which has me thinking I should list products anywhere else. Unfortunately, XStreet seems to be the most popular web-based marketplace. I used to have products on Onrez, which was the main competition to XStreet, but then XStreet bought out Onrez to kill the competition. Apez and Slapt.me are newer fledgling systems, and I decided to set up on Apez.

I've kinda given up on the FF Ashe for the time being... it's not coming out as sexy as I had thought it might; and there's a lot of sculpts... and... I think there might only be 2 or 3 people in SL that actually want it... :)

If you're dying to see ASHE, then tell me! If a bunch of people send me IM's or notecards or whatever, then maybe Ashe will come to life.

Monday, November 16, 2009

Well, I wanted to make an XStreet "top ten worthy" outfit, and the directions I got were:

1. Black

2. Short

3. PG but just barely

I started on a black miniskirt outfit, but then I was wearing it with the top from the Veronica's Secret set, and thought "dang, this would make a great schoolgirl outfit!" So I made a plaid texture and started screwing around...

Then someone was wondering why the Schoolgirl outfit didn't come with undies. So, I decided to make some new undies. I was thinking obout re-doing the bras in my current undies sets, so I had this new cut in the works. What do you think? I was thinking that I should make matching garters and stockings, and maybe a matching frilly robe :)